Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.
What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.
My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.
That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.
She was loved deeply, but not widely
I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.
You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.
But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?
You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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